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Yeah, well, I wouldn't have wanted to flirt with any of her friends in the first place. There was no doubt she was by far the most beautiful of all of them. And, she had the nicest body. And, she dressed the nicest.
Oh well, thats much better !.
:) So you make a virtue of your not chatting up or pantsing her friends, while secretly never feeling the desire to. Thats more like it, Christian.
Bwahahaha.
All you need to do now, is work on the beer thing. It's dirty work, but someone has to get it done.
And, she had the nicest body. And, she dressed the nicest.
This seems like one of the mathematical statements that are true back to front also !. :lol:
I was feeling old and grumpy yesterday, wasn't I?. I am still old, but not grumpy today.
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Aye, well, that advice'd be a good way for me to get my ass kicked by my girlfriend!
Luckily, I met her when she was by herself, so I only had reason to give her all my attention! She can be a possessive one, she can.
Two scenarios here:
1.If I had given all of her friends attention, and then started flirting with her, she'd immediately have gotten suspicious of me, and thought I was a "player".
2.If I had shown interest in her, and then when she was around her friends, flirted with everyone, then told her I only wanted her, well, I'd have gotten the hell beaten out of me by her!
I am starting to WORRY about you, mate. First, the spirits drinking and the disdain for Gods Blood/Beer, . . . . . .
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I saw Hero night before last, and didn't really enjoy it. I Don't say that Chinese people aren't allowed their little florishes, but whats the POINT of the King HAVING an army, if a bloke and his mad wife can just walk in untouchable?.
Why not save on laundry and beer deliveries, and just HIRE yourself someone named after an aspect of nature?. And someone to watch him.
I realise we have similar things in British Myth ( Finn MacCool and his burnt finger springs to mind, and even good man Robin could have cut to the chase and just SHOT AN ARROW INTO THE SHERRIF ! ) but seriously now !.
Not a thousandth of the movie that Crouching Dragon was.
And some Chinese blokes asked me afterwards what I thought, and I was hard pressed to explain that I understood it was traditional Kungfu myth powers, but just taken too far to make it worth watching.
Little John might pull up an immature oak as thick as his wrist, roots and all, which we can swallow with a little straining, but he doesn't push over a castle wall, does he?.
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lol. Where as i played inanity for 20 levels, before i figured out it had no purpose.
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Ouch, Avaunt... that's pretty cynical. But I'm not going to defend us women, because underneath the bitterness you know well enough that we're not all like that. And most of us are just as vulnerable as you guys, so...
[isn't that counter attack a bit silly? Do you really think girls don't get what's happening? A guy who does that is merely trying to save his face. Cos why would a guy ask a girl out if he's not really interested in her, right?
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Sure, the two species have much in common. When men have a lot of money, and a fast car, WE are USERS to you guys, too. Many girls are hatefully manipulated (no pun intended ;) ) by rich guys, or by bullies. And when the man has nothing more ( don't think I place a low value on this, as the pure opposite is the fact ) than a kindly heart and an honest nature, 99.9 % of the time, he is doomed to cruel hateful manipulation from the womanfolk. It is how life works.
It is just that I sense Rogan is neither rich nor a bully, and therefore doomed to be the pawn of many a heartless user bitch. it is the way of the wicked world, and no, i don't think he will take my advice, no more than i take it myself. I thought he might get a warning, or a tougher skin, or at least amused by what I had to say, and realise it isn't just him. I think he is doomed to misery, because of his normal sex drive. Of course i know many many women that have also suffered at the hands of men. I sympathise with them.
It is just that I am sure of which side I am on.
Edit: You are quite right "Go Rogan, don't lose Heart". I just think you ought to have told him HOW. Don't place your HEART in a losing wager. Respect, and liking, but protect your heart, the simplest forest witch knows that. (inside a magic box, inside a glove, inside an egg, in the highest eirye of the eagles perched nest )
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I say, Ms Peru is a bit of alright, eh chaps?.
Personal motto " My family is my strength "
Bother. Seems like all those South American girls have aggro brothers !.
Rogan, you ought to play more mindgames on your intended victim/prospective lovers. It's sad but true, women love a cad, the path to getting the pants offa them, is best trod by a barstard.
You ought to flat out ignore any girl you have a gonad inspired interest in, for at least the first three weeks you know her. If she asks you a question, or says anything, look at her blank faced, as if you could care less that she has an opinion. Then say something faux nice to her, like "that's interesting" but don't add anything else, just get up and leave. She will spend a week wondering what you meant. Always leave them in doubt, and confused.
NEVER mention to any other female that you have the least interest in her. EVERY woman scurries off as quick as thought, to spill the beans to the other woman, and to give their opinion of the man*. We are at war, with the species, Rogan, and THEIR SIDE is an army of mutual support, where as our side is a rabble of lone gunners.
This one you describe, sounds like a lost cause to me, you have made yourself vulnerable, and appear slightly eager , I fear. Your only possible chance is to make a counter attack, like ringing her up, and retracting your offer, in some way that leaves her wondering why she hasn't kept your attention.
Actually, the best advice is that which people always MIS-quote from Macciavalli
"Put not your faith in Princesses"
Fat ugly girls are best, mate. Far less opinionated, and much better in the sack anyway. Far less likely to say " No, i won't do that, it's dirty " .And when you are finished with them, they EXPECT you to dump them, because they KNOW they are worthless, and there is always plenty of OTHER fat ugly girls to replace them with.
*It is always a bad opinion.
(What, me, Bitter?.)
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One of my favorite writers was the protege of Mr. Vonnegut: John Irving.
I liked his SPIRITUAL son, Phillip Jose Farmers' pen name "Kilgore Trout."
Venus on the Half Shell and others.
Was it Vonnegut that decided people ought to stop reading forwards, and read backwards till everyone has had all the classics?. So he stopped writing new books?.
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Yeah, you should be able to get a laptop that'll run it but it'll cost you a pretty penny I reckon.
Sean's spending more time in the office playing Rome than working, so there must be something to it.
We haven't used British coin here for about 90 years, so i think even a very big pile of extremely good looking pennies, were they even the Jude Laws and the Gwen Steffanis of pelf, won't do the trick.
Luckily, NZ Dollars grew some mighty big balls the last few years, so IMPORTING things is not the blood haeomorrhaging, paupering experience it has been for most of my life.
Actually, thats a saying for the "Sayings" thread, isn't it?. "That'll cost you a pretty penny" I wonder if it was a hangover from the times when most of the coin in circulation was clipped?. So if you had a pretty one, it was the full weight?.
I wonder if you could get a normalish laptop, boot off all the windows shit, and like the internet, everything except the games specific stuff, and do it that way?.
As for Rome, I have a playable demo off a game mag cover. I think that its' claim to fame is more that it's pretty pretty , lifelike , nothing particularly strategic superised about it, I felt. Of course, thats just from a demo. Though it looks interesting for multiplayer.
I was surprised that it ran on my machine here. I have always misread its stats , it says pentium® 4 cpu 2.60 GHz
504 MB of RAM
but doesn't mention that it has a 64 MB video card.
So I have always flagged games that needed a Video card. Just noticed last night, that it had one, because the demo of rome told me it had.(I know NOTHING about these things, a babe in the woods)Might go out on a buying splurge now :)
I played a demo of Worms Forts, which is three dee worms with a bit of stratagy throwen in, and quite good, but damned hard to control him in 3D.
Summer time here, so I gotta go enjoy the sunshine, mate. Cherrio !.
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Thanks John, I will be buying it asap. I really need a laptop , do you think you could get one that would play a new game, like Rome?.
And if the answer is yes, please try to get it to me BEFORE christmas, eh?.
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I need a seriously rich uncle, but only long enough to endear myself to him.
This was a drunken joke, john. I suffer from a lack of a sense of what is actually funny.
What I meant to ask, was, do you think a game like R:tw, could fit onto a laptop?.
I wouldn't buy another PC, because i think I am going to be homeless/living in flatland soon. And not being a driver, I think I will have to cut down on belongings, AGAIN.
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Thanks John, I will be buying it asap. I really need a laptop , do you think you could get one that would play a new game, like Rome?.
And if the answer is yes, please try to get it to me BEFORE christmas, eh?.
:rolleyes:
I need a seriously rich uncle, but only long enough to endear myself to him.
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Oh, wow. He was on television in 'Reilly, Ace Of Spies' when I was a girl, and I've loved him ever since.
OH YES. That was real acting by Sam Neil, you really felt he was a heartless spy, what an excellent miniseries. No exposition, no pandering to the idiots that plague us. I got so heavily into that, that I went out and read up about the real man. Sigmund Rosenblum. Life is dull for me, in comparison* ;)
I knew who he was when I served him and his friends one night. Being eglatarian New Zealand, I couldn't show him favour above anyone else, and my pride wouldn't let me treat him any better than the next customer either. And I was determined, because we were quiet, to shield their party from stickybeaks, because why should any of my customers have their privacy bothered?. But I was only the Bartender, eh?. and our manager plowed out there with a menu for him to sign, and faffed about saying how much she respected him blah blah blah.
Small frog in the small pond, rubbing aginst the big frog for luck, or something. Fifteen years ago !. Or more, possibly.
*Or in actuality, probably. High point of my day today?. I was able to effortlessly corral two escaped calves, just sauntered along like a Gen-U-ine cowpoke, and lifted the latch that captured them. Woohoo ! :rolleyes:
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Loved that Russell Crowe story, Avaunt. Any dirt on Carl Urban, now that you're at it...?
Sorry, I never knew who he was at the time, I don't watch tv much at all.
Once he got a part in a show here, forget what, probably Zena, we all twigged that he was an actor. From memory, he is an intense concentrated bloke. Probably Gay, do you think?. ;)
We have like the one single road that is "In" with the arty crowd, in Auckland. Or maybe one and a half, if you include the Parnell Rise. SO I have actually seen most of our actors.
Sam Neil?. An excellent human being, if he isn't crowded, but a fighting spirit if people care to push him. And a command of the English language that a Kings' General ought to have. This man could say " Up Guards, and At Them ! " and men would be swept along.
None of them are famous, or important, till they leave here. Big frogs in a small pond.
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The Bourne Supremacy, which was good, clean fun. Nothing spectacular, but good entertainment, nice direction, some cool action scenes and a fair enough plot. Nice seeing the guy who played Eomer playing a russian assassin...
Yeah, Carl Urban. He, and Martin Henderson ( from "the ring" -ringu-, Torque,) and Russell Crowe are all from my Hometown. Auckland is so small, I have served all of them beers at various times, in my part time bar working, and when we were younger men, Russell Crowe and I had a drunken disagreement outside a nightclub once. The bloke was always an arsehole, and an egotist. And Stupid. He took a lease on a disused wharehouse in about 1986 (so old now, not really sure of the year. Around about the time I got my first hotel job, though, and was 20, so about then.-grandpaw rambling away to himself by the fireplace. ;)), and conned a lot of schoolgirls * into helping him fit it out as a nightclub, and THEN applied for a liquor licence. Doh !. The powers that be, knocked him back, because he actually was underage himself. lol. So he got involved with A shady bloke as partner, and reapplied, more money up front and a wage for the bloke, and "Nope" says the PTB, "this fella is an undischarged bankrupt."
What I have to give Crowe, is he is not one to take no for an answer, because then he opened it anyway, as a "Dry" kids disco, and pool hall. And it did alright for a while, because Auckland never had somewhere for kids to go, except the movies. Eventually it went sour though, because a gang "adopted" it as their head quarters, so people stopped going. But before then, Russ had moved onto better things, and left someone else with the lemon.
*He used to be a Glam Rock "star" called himself " Russ le Rock " and always had a sea of 16 year old St Cuthberts girls following him around.
And so did Martin Henderson, when he was living in Ponsonby and acting on NZ TV as a Doctor in a soap opera. We would card the girls that came into the bar with him, and he would shoo off the ones he knew wouldn't make the cut. ;)
If only my head wasn't a horrorshow, I would have been a Martin Henderson with both boots :) Oh, and I would have to be a lot taller. And less lazy. and better hair too.
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but you know as well as I do that it is very hard to find a 20th/21st century history book that does not give the "West", "First World", and the "Superpowers" more attention than any other country.
Well. history would be pretty confusing a subject, if countries that didn't have a hand in setting its course, counted as importantly in the official records, as countries that drove the car of history.
I mean, what did Burma count for in history, except that GB colonised it, and Japan invaded it?.
How did Burma change or influence the course of history?.
Or Papua New Guinea?.
If you plucked them , and all reference to them, out of all the history books, the books would read much the same, I think.
In truth, Newton was far and away a more important historical person then Lai Po. And Caxton more so again than the nameless-even-in-Chinese-histories person who first made movable type. Wellington made more of a difference to history than Chakka.
It is called the First world, not by chance.
(imho, of course ;) )
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Anyone brought Rome:total war yet?. LOL I realise it hasn't got Automatic weapons, or V8 cars in it, so there isn't much chance of it happening, is it, but I live in hope. I want to buy a new computer, one that is going to run R:tw, and that is a measure of how good I think it is, from just a half hour watching while someone else played it.
RTS heaven, If I have my slang right.
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hydro energy is in theory a good alternative. problem is that building the dams can cause a significant amount of damage to the enviroment. plus, on 'dry' years things can get very difficult.
Yes, they cause damage, and alter the immediate enviroment. And what a lot of people fail to realise is, they are not eternal, they will silt up quite quickly, if there is deforestation, or urbanisation, or worst of all, agriculture, up stream from them.
However, I think they are the ONLY really viable alternative energy. If you want to be really blunt about it, they can be built using horse powered waggons, and draglines for shifting the parts of the face that you don't want ( alter the bed of the face of the dam, you understand, if the terrain doesn't suit you ) and the concrete can be delivered by horse waggons too. And this is a fact, because it is how the first one was built in New Zealand.
So, lucky countries like NZ and Norway are never going to be in the same boat, as places like the Netherlands. They are going to have to abandon their state, when the oil runs out, because they have such a massive imbalance of people to potential energy sources that NOTHING can feed them, except oil. We in the high rainfall/steep sided valley countries, are just going to have to accept a little damage of some valleys' ecosystems, and build more hydrodams.
New Zealand actually exports electricity, in a way. Australia has massive amounts of Bauxite, which they actually can't afford to process, because most of their energy is produced by oil fired stations. So they ship partly refined Bauxite to the Te Wai point Smelter in our South Island, and our truely massive South Island dam system provides the Electricity to smelt the Bauxite into Alumina, an energy intensive process. Then we ship the Alumina back to the "Wide Brown Land" and they turn it into stuff, notably the Holden Commodore, and rubbish bins*
30 years ago, the silly greenies here protested against new hydro dams being built, resulting in them not producing any more. Now, the cost of labour and materials is too high, we probably will not build any, until oil prices force us to.
Far enough into the future, even dams silting up, will be planned for. You can build in an electrially powered dragline system across the inside face of the dam, that hauls out the silt as it builds up. Reduces the efficency, of course, which is why they have short sightedly never installed them in the past.
Personally, looking at the future energy crunch, and the damage that countries like Malasia, Indonesia and China are doing to their own environments now, I believe that New Zealand is gong to be a target for invasion inside the next hundred years. Not so that China can provide their plebs with resources, not at all. So that their elite will have a lovely clean country, that still has fish in the rivers, and seas, and space to have a holiday home too.
The excuse will be "Resources for our starving billions" but nothing will be given to the workers, we will be a prize shared between the political elite and the officer corp .
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Yip that's where it all comes from. I learnt about the beauties of the male form through art history books. All those youthful St Sebastians, peppered with arrows and with suprising orgasmic looks of spiritual rapture on their faces, can have a rather profound effect on a 13 year old. Likewise depositions, pietas, (does it count as necrophilia is the corpse is going to come back to life in three days time?) and Michelangelo's bound slaves.
Yeah, when I lived in Sydney, we used to pile into my mates Impala, 5 or 6 of us, and drive MANY weary miles west, over the Blue Mountains, to the town of Orange. Where his Grandad had a farm that had some workers cottages on it, where we were allowed to stay. We used to fill the car with grog and dak, and jelly beans and chippies.
With me so far?. Might not APPEAR to you this is joined to your "Religious Art Studies". Until I point out that Orange is famous for having a MASSIVE christian Girls Boarding school. And no Bar or pub in town will sell them alcohol, will it?.
So the naughty little things were dead keen to jump the fence at night, and come to a party. With Party favours, AND sausage.
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Naughty young men.
two of my friends brought a car FOR two of the naughty girls. Which would drive the 6 hours to Sydney, jump in the sack for an hour or so, and back for morning role call. Until they broke down and it all went pear shaped. :)
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I'm fuckin' lovin' this shit right here. There's so much in here to see and do.
My CJ is all tatted up: Groves Street familes tat on the back, LS on the chest, GS on the stomach and a cross on the fore arm. I keep CJ at the gym constantly so he's thick as fuck. I feed him lots of salads so he's sharp. Girls are always coming up and talking shit. You can talk positive or negative shit back by pressing the left or right D pad so I'm always talkin' shit to the ladies....had a few hookers too. Like in VC, they boost yer strength. Did you know you can boost your sex appeal by dancing at the club? I wonder if that'll attract more hookers because I get flipped off a lot.
My CJ wears green track pants (green to represent Groves), no shirt to show off the tats and the bod, dogtags, and a green bandana tied around the front so he looks like Tupac on steroids. During particularly rough missions he kicks the urban camo and the watch cap.
I found an Icon the other day that said I could plug another controller in for split play. Anybody see this?
This is all really tempting, EXCEPT I can't deal with vehicles in games. :(
I think I will get an Xbox, for fable. And continue to enjoy GTA vicariously through you hardcores. :)
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Y'know you should send that little bear of yours to various forumites so we can take pictures of him at local landmarks.
If the bear got sent to NZ, I would take him up the Skytower, he would like that, and if it's nice weather, you can see heaven AKA Great Barrier Island. Which hasn't any bears, at all, not even the Aussie variety.
That Irish priest is as flucked in the head as anyone I ever saw. Bloody religious nutters SWARM around the world, eh?. It will be identified as a mental disease, eventually, and a cure imposed on the sufferers.
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lol. Aye, Rounds, and the souless illegitimate spawn of the pit (plural) that will drink theirs and then say " Oh, we don't do that in my country/here/where I come from/unless someone says the majic words (add a lying made up phrase here, like they do) ".
This was me, but I think I didn't log on, or somewhat.
And of the above sailing terms, of course, Charli K, my main interest in sailing stemmed from the inimitable Master O'Brien. Beyond Awesome, we are richer as a culture, in a way beyond words, because of the Friendship of Steven and Jack.
On another site, a fellow "Surprise"
( Can we not claim the right to be entered on her books, as some sort of supernuminaries say?. Tell me true, if somehow, or other, you woke up standing on Her deck, and -honour satisfied that it wasn't a "Cousin Johnathan" ship in your case ;) - She was to close quarters with an adversary, you would snatch up a "Crow" and scream "Surprise, Surprise" and lay about you, wouldn't you?. )
tried to do me honour, by comparing me with Steven Maturin*. I was flattered, but embarassed and quickly disavowed what I KNOW was too flattering by half.
Bondon Barrett would suit me right down to earth, I would swell with pride to be that man. A great, honoured, hard mans life, respect from above and below, a lifetimes valuable skill and service laid at the feet of his countrymen, the utter trust and faith of, and from his lord and master, Prizes, and then a great and worthwhile death.
I also sail, and have built a few small yachts, and helped build a Stuart 34 which we just launched recently. I am an Aucklander, a part Maori, born to saltwater, eh?. So those books were just thrilling, like drawing gold from a streambed or something. I have read them again and again.
* He was making a list of how he pictured our site mates, drawing on screen and fiction characters. ;)
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Yeah I saw it yesterday. I liekd it a lot too, good performances by everyone involved, IMHO. YEs, the ending was a bit overclichéd, but apart from that - good film!
I JUST this minute walked out of the collateral movie, which I went to see because you guys said it was cool. And I concur, whole heartedly.
I never saw J Fox in anything before, I think. But he rocked, very believable.
Mr E D Meaner, I am miles closer to you, today, then I was yesterday. I am in Wellington, to visit the museum (te papa, what a stupid name, eh?. I mean, crist sake, we were feuding tribal savages, weren't we?. How the hell were we supposed to have had the concept of "Our Place"?. It was ONLY "MY PLACE", enforced with a stone club. Silly bloody PC Crapola.) Anyway, guess the weather here?. Bwahahaha.
What a crappy place, no wonder we confine the pollies here.
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Congratulations, Carmody. You are very lucky, you just became the most important person in the world, for a person.
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And like Boromir too. I've a bit of a kink for men being shot through with arrows.
Isn't there a Saint, maybe St Sebastian, that would flip your switch, then?.
:) Ooooh, you kinky devil ! ;)
Boromir took a good death, don't you think?. Redeemed himself, and came to his senses and placed his hands between his Rightful Lords' before he died , and took swags of filthy orc scum with him to the next world, as battle sweepings. No shame to have fallen under the sway of the red eye , after all. Didn't one of the Maia themselves fall under that shadow?. What chance did an average man have, when Saruman the White himself despaired?. And yet he did make an end fit for his fathers people.
The BEST death, was Theoden Kings'. Crashing like a Spear into the flank of the enemy. Slaying the standard bearer and riding down the enemy leader, splitting him from helm to saddle bow. And having as good as a son to hand on his kingdom to. What happiness. And a "Daughter" fit to avenge him. Happy happy man.
What I got up to in the dark ...
in Bring the Noise
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Yes, I understood it as myth alright. It is just that it was inconsistant in the extreme. Dragon/tiger was at least consistant, so you could swallow the superpowers as part of the myth.
Like, I accepted the calligraphy master insisting his students stay at their desks, that is like the Zulus dancing a war dance on the deck of the sinking British ship in ww1. You have trained for this skill, you are going to die one way or another, die with dignity as you lived your life. Or the Royal Marines that stood still in their ranks as the ship founded, because they couldn't help it to float, and undisplined running about would have degraded them.
What was stupid and inconsistant, was sending troops to shoot arrows at people that you KNOW can just dance about flicking the arrows away.
If superpowers exisited, you don't send normal troops after the supermen. You train up supermen of your own.
I have seen many kungfu movies, and swallowed much myth in my time, so it isn't that i couldn't swallow a little more. Just not a very good movie. (imnsho ;) )